Welcome to Castleton Historical Society’s website

Future Events

Next Meeting
The programme of meetings for 2026 will now available to view here.
At our next meeting on April 16 Mark Dawson will give a talk on Tudor Foods.

Forget Henry VIII and his gargantuan appetite, it’s time to have a look at what ordinary people would have been eating in Tudor times. This talk looks at the food and drink of ordinary Tudor people together with how it was cooked and how it was eaten. What foods were available? What contribution did different foods have to diet? Did they have enough to eat?

Castleton Historical Society holds regular meetings on the third Thursday of each month, except for August and December. Our meetings are held at the Peveril Centre, Methodist Church on Buxton Road in Castleton and our programme of talks can be viewed here. Visitors are always welcome to attend for a small charge (£3) which includes hot drinks and biscuits.

  • The Stones
  • Wrays Store
  • Waterside
  • Sydgate
  • Hancocks Stores, Cross St.

Closure of Castleton Museum
With great sadness, CHS announces the closure of Castleton Museum, which has been housed within Castleton Visitor Centre for over 20 years.  The space occupied by the Museum’s displays will become available for commercial use next year. A small area will be reserved for wall-mounted displays.  Some of the archive of documents, photographs and artefacts will continue to be stored on site for establishing and renewing the new display area but much of the collection will be dispersed.
More details of this development can be seen here.

The Village of Castleton
Castleton developed as a settlement in the 12th century when the Norman fortress of Peveril Castle was built there. Articles on the history of Castleton can be found here and some photos from our collection are shown below.

Castleton Historical Society
Castleton Historical Society is a voluntary group who promote the history of the Village with a programme of talks, events, displays and local history research. CHS is responsible for establishing and continuing to curate an archive of documents, photographs and artefacts relating to the history of Castleton.

In recent years, the Society has participated in a number of ongoing archaeological digs. More information about our meetings, research and archaeological activities, publications and events are described on this website. New members are always welcome.